TDF Stages Archive

Susan Reiter covers dance for TDF Stages.

The surprisingly deep themes of Something Rotten! — On first glance – or maybe even fifth – Something Rotten! doesn’t seem anything like Breaking Bad. After all, the former is a raucous musical comedy about Elizabethan playwrights who actually invent musical theatre while trying to compete with Shakespeare, and the latter is an era-defining television series […]

How the renowned director brings laughs to Living on Love — “All good screwball comedy depends on a level of danger.” So says Kathleen Marshall, and she should know. She directed hellzapoppin Broadway shows like Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes, and Wonderful Town, which were all distinguished by their zany charm. […]

Seeing the revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play reminded me of how much it influenced my life — I’m always a bit anxious when I go to a Broadway revival of a show that I loved in its original incarnation. First off, it makes me feel old (or, more accurately, middle-aged—I suspect I’ll be […]

In a new home, Triskelion Arts helps keep scrappy dance alive — In 2000, five young dancers rented a loft on a mostly-deserted street in a still-questionable Brooklyn neighborhood called Williamsburg. They toiled to make Triskelion Arts, the new space, a home not only for their own choreographic endeavors, but also a center for artists […]

Inside the new design of Broadway’s Fun Home  — When the floor starts collapsing, we barely notice. It’s only afterward, when all the trap doors have silently slid open, that we realize this family’s house has become a gaping maw. One foot wrong, and someone could disappear into darkness. In that moment, the set of […]

Inside the killer choreography of An American in Paris — While the dance world at large continues to wage an uphill battle (see: the closing of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet), Broadway is enjoying a surge of dance-heavy shows. The charge is led by three musicals currently on the boards. Gigi and On the Town – […]

The student matinees are, it turns out, the highlights of my life. I can’t begin to describe how it feels.

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